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000461334 1001_ $$aMcGinty, Brian.
000461334 24514 $$aThe body of John Merryman$$h[electronic resource] :$$bAbraham Lincoln and the suspension of habeas corpus /$$cBrian McGinty.
000461334 260__ $$aCambridge, Mass. :$$bHarvard University Press,$$c2011.
000461334 300__ $$a1 online resource (253 p., [10] p. of plates) :$$bill.
000461334 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [229]-242) and index.
000461334 5050_ $$aThe challenge -- Conflicted ground -- The squire of Hayfields -- The writ and the suspension -- All the laws but one -- Weighing in -- The courts -- A gentleman still -- The great tribunal.
000461334 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users.
000461334 520__ $$a"In April 1861, President Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus along the military line between Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia. This allowed army officers to arrest and indefinitely detain persons who were interfering with military operations in the area. When John Merryman, a wealthy Marylander suspected of burning bridges to prevent the passage of U.S. troops to Washington, was detained in Fort McHenry, the chief justice of the Supreme Court, Roger Taney, declared the suspension of habeas corpus unconstitutional and demanded Merryman's immediate release. Lincoln defied Taney's order, offering his own forceful counter-argument for the constitutionality of his actions. Thus the stage was set for one of the most dramatic personal and legal confrontations the country has ever witnessed. The Body of John Merryman is the first book-length examination of this much-misunderstood chapter in American history. Brian McGinty captures the tension and uncertainty that surrounded the early months of the Civil War, explaining how Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus was first and foremost a military action that only subsequently became a crucial constitutional battle. McGinty's narrative brings to life the personalities that drove this uneasy standoff and expands our understanding of the war as a legal--and not just a military, political, and social--conflict. The Body of John Merryman is an extraordinarily readable book that illuminates the contours of one of the most significant cases in American legal history--a case that continues to resonate in our own time"--Provided by publisher.
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000461334 60010 $$aMerryman, John,$$d1824-1881$$xTrials, litigation, etc.
000461334 61010 $$aUnited States.$$bSupreme Court.
000461334 650_0 $$aWar and emergency powers$$zUnited States.
000461334 650_0 $$aHabeas corpus$$zUnited States.
000461334 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aMcGinty, Brian.$$tBody of John Merryman.$$dCambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011$$z9780674061552$$w(DLC) 2011012149$$w(OCoLC)709576087
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